Finally finished watching this two part 90-minute each miniseries.
It seems with every iteration, Batman has to become more 'serious'...
...and 'seriousness' here means m o v i n g . . . r e a l l y . . . s l o w l y, and
talking very quietly.
It gets funny in some scenes, and once, after Batman injected himself with some painkillers and adrenaline, was beating a guy repeatedly, and was stopped, he immediately went into s l o w m o d e.
Other moments are looking like he's always posing for a poster, or starring in a presidential election nominee TV spot, like all smeared thoroughly with dirt, bringing a teenager to two brave, and also posing, soldiers, and other stuff like that. But only giving a hand to former mayor's son, and newly elected one, the rest of the plebs can be helped by useless cops, not a job for the trust fund rich boy! In all of that it's simultaneously serious, and ridiculous, heroic, and superficial, I guess kind of like the real world. So, success, yay!
I also would have liked to see more people get killed, otherwise all that build up, and nothing much. There should've been a massacre. But I guess then Batman couldn't have acted like Ave Deva Maria the savior, trying his Terminator 2 hardest not to kill any of the fanatics.
Stole a scene from Equilibrium as well.
Overall it doesn't feel like a Batman movie, more like True Detective, or one of those serial killer movies, like Kiss the Girls or Resurrection. It's not bad, just very different.
